Seeking help for my undergraduate research in Maple Royals

Hello everyone!

I am an undergraduate student in Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore.
I recently took up a research project about masculinity in virtual spaces and am currently in the preliminary stages of my project.
I have selected Maple Royals as the platform to conduct my research instead of MapleSEA because of how it feels more 'lively' (Everyone still does all the PQs, interacts a lot, etc.) I was also a MapleSEA player (year2006-2010 era) so I could really connect with Maple Royals (and the nostalgia it brings about)

I am asking if anyone of you would be willing to take part in my research project as a participant?
For now in my proposal, the tasks of a participant would be
1. Complete a questionnaire
2. Participant-observation (I will be observing your gameplay as you complete various tasks e.g. PQ)

There will be some remuneration after completion (though I am not sure how much it will be for now as I am still in the preliminary stages of my research)

Criteria:
1. Male
2. Active player of Maple Royals
3. Plays with groups of online players frequently rather than as a solo player --> so that I can observe your interactions with other people
(Good-to-have) Married in Maple Royals --> reason being I hope to be able to ask participant to play Amoria PQ with his partner

Thank you for taking some time to read this thread!
Should you be interested, and/or if you have any questions/queries/doubts, or any suggestions, please feel free to drop me a message and I will reply to you as soon as I can.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

Lol

I have a lot of traps here. They are male in real but playing female characters in games. I can introduce a few of them to you.

 

Hey! Thanks for helping out! I'll contact you again when I need your help, is that okay? Appreciate it a lot!

 

No problem! We also need more single girls in game & in real too in our guild. They are dry, you know, that’s why we have traps. QQ

 

Hey i dont mind helping if you need. I majored in market research so its really interesting that you selected such niche game to do your research Hahaha

 

Hi, that will be great! Thank you so much for your help and enthusiasm!
Wow icic that's an interesting major choice!
I'll contact you again when I need your help, okay?

 

Better check if is this consider as RWT first LOL

 

Trade traps for girls?

 

i don't think participant observation is a good idea for your methodology simply because the results can be very biased. however, if you do want to try this stuff, i would suggest doing a blinded experiment. a questionnaire is a good start though (assuming you have a big sample size).

good luck with your project.

 

This server is not a place for you to conduct your UG research.